The audience learns this at the beginning, and we are drawn in to the story of how an Average American Family, if such thing exists, faces evil, or chooses not to face it. Teresa Wright plays Charlie, a young woman who has yet to throw off the blinders of innocent childhood and is slow to realize her beloved uncle, played by Joseph Cotten, is a murderer. Hitchcock uses his particular brand of humor to throw us off and leave us unprepared, as Young Charlie is unprepared, for the unimaginable psychological terror unexpectedly brought on by the visit of a favorite uncle. Though “Shadow of the Doubt” is hardly a comedy, there is much that amuses in the film and Mr. This could illustrate that the Master of Suspense had just as keen a sense of humor as of horror. “Shadow of a Doubt” was thought to be Director Alfred Hitchcock’s favorite film.
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